Prejudice Politics And The American Dilemma

Author : Paul M. Sniderman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804724821
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prejudice, Politics, and the American Dilemma written by Paul M. Sniderman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been half a century since the publication of An American Dilemma, Gunnar Myrdal's seminal work on race in America. The cleavage between the politics of race of the 1940s and the 1990s is that race has become a greater dilemma than ever before. This book is an attempt to contribute to a fresh understanding of prejudice, politics, and the American dilemma. It presents new lines of questions by deliberately inter-weaving two perspectives, the first taking up issues of race focusing on whites, the second on blacks. The contributors are drawn from several disciplines in the social sciences, sociologists, psychometricians, social and personality psychologists, demographers and political scientists of several persuasions. The book represents an important shift in perspectives, both theoretical and methodological, in the study of race and American politics.

Author : Gunnar Myrdal
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 141281510X
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black and African-American Studies written by Gunnar Myrdal and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Obie Clayton
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 0871541572
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Dilemma Revisited written by Obie Clayton and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1996-03-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study examining research and development projects and capital improvements, and changes in productivity and profitability in selected American manufacturing industries and companies from 1980 to 1989. Special attention is given to the effects of substantial investment increases on productivity and profitability changes. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Gunnar Myrdal
Publisher : New York ; London : Harper & brothers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1548 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Dilemma written by Gunnar Myrdal and published by New York ; London : Harper & brothers. This book was released on 1944 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackled the stark contradiction between America's ideal of equality and the realities of racism against African-Americans, as well as other oppressed groups. In it, Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal argued that rampant discrimination not only negated America's founding principles, but also diminished its productivity and advancement. Cited in the landmark segregation case Brown v. Board of Education, the book greatly influenced perspectives on race relations and helped form the foundation for the civil rights movement.

Author : Gunnar Myrdal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1636 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Dilemma written by Gunnar Myrdal and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World [originally published in 1944], Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, An American Dilemma, refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination. The touchstone of this classic is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks. The appendices are a gold mine of information, theory, and methodology. Indeed, two of the appendices were issued as a separate work given their importance for systematic theory in social research...When it first appeared An American Dilemma was called "the most penetrating and important book on contemporary American civilization" by Robert S. Lynd; "One of the best political commentaries on American life that has ever been written" in The American Political Science Review; and a book with "a novelty and a courage seldom found in American discussions either of our total society or of the part which the Negro plays in it" in The American Sociological Review. It is a foundation work for all those concerned with the history and current status of race relations in the United States. --

Author : Gunnar Myrdal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 800 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Dilemma written by Gunnar Myrdal and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gunnar Myrdal
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1560008571
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An American Dilemma, Volume 2 written by Gunnar Myrdal and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this landmark effort to understand African American people in the New World, Gunnar Myrdal provides deep insight into the contradictions of American democracy as well as a study of a people within a people. The title of the book, An American Dilemma, refers to the moral contradiction of a nation torn between allegiance to its highest ideals and awareness of the base realities of racial discrimination. The touchstone of this classic is the jarring discrepancy between the American creed of respect for the inalienable rights to freedom, justice, and opportunity for all and the pervasive violations of the dignity of blacks. The appendices are a gold mine of information, theory, and methodology. Indeed, two of the appendices were issued as a separate work given their importance for systematic theory in social research. The new introduction by Sissela Bok offers a remarkably intimate yet rigorously objective appraisal of Myrdal-a social scientist who wanted to see himself as an analytic intellectual, yet had an unbending desire to bring about change. An American Dilemma is testimonial to the man as well as the ideas he espoused. When It first appeared An American Dilemma was called "the most penetrating and important book on contemporary American civilizations by Robert S. Lynd; "One of the best political commentaries on American life that has ever been written" in The American Political Science Review; and a book with "a novelty and a courage seldom found in American discussions either of our total society or of the part which the Negro plays in it" in The American Sociological Review. It is a foundation work for all those concerned with the history and current status of race relations in the United States.

Author : Leah N. Gordon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022623844X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Power to Prejudice written by Leah N. Gordon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon provides an intellectual history of the concept of racial prejudice in postwar America. In particular, she asks, what accounts for the dominance of theories of racism that depicted oppression in terms of individual perpetrators and victims, more often than in terms of power relations and class conflict? Such theories came to define race relations research, civil rights activism, and social policy. Gordon s book is a study in the politics of knowledge production, as it charts debates about the race problem in a variety of institutions, including the Rockefeller Foundation, the University of Chicago s Committee on Education Training and Research in Race Relations, Fisk University s Race Relations Institutes, Howard University s "Journal of Negro Education," and the National Conference of Christians and Jews."

Author : Nancy DiTomaso
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610447891
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The American Non-Dilemma written by Nancy DiTomaso and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil Rights movement of the 1960s seemed to mark a historical turning point in advancing the American dream of equal opportunity for all citizens, regardless of race. Yet 50 years on, racial inequality remains a troubling fact of life in American society and its causes are highly contested. In The American Non-Dilemma, sociologist Nancy DiTomaso convincingly argues that America's enduring racial divide is sustained more by whites' preferential treatment of members of their own social networks than by overt racial discrimination. Drawing on research from sociology, political science, history, and psychology, as well as her own interviews with a cross-section of non-Hispanic whites, DiTomaso provides a comprehensive examination of the persistence of racial inequality in the post-Civil Rights era and how it plays out in today's economic and political context. Taking Gunnar Myrdal's classic work on America's racial divide, The American Dilemma, as her departure point, DiTomaso focuses on "the white side of the race line." To do so, she interviewed a sample of working, middle, and upper-class whites about their life histories, political views, and general outlook on racial inequality in America. While the vast majority of whites profess strong support for civil rights and equal opportunity regardless of race, they continue to pursue their own group-based advantage, especially in the labor market where whites tend to favor other whites in securing jobs protected from market competition. This "opportunity hoarding" leads to substantially improved life outcomes for whites due to their greater access to social resources from family, schools, churches, and other institutions with which they are engaged. DiTomaso also examines how whites understand the persistence of racial inequality in a society where whites are, on average, the advantaged racial group. Most whites see themselves as part of the solution rather than part of the problem with regard to racial inequality. Yet they continue to harbor strong reservations about public policies—such as affirmative action—intended to ameliorate racial inequality. In effect, they accept the principles of civil rights but not the implementation of policies that would bring about greater racial equality. DiTomaso shows that the political engagement of different groups of whites is affected by their views of how civil rights policies impact their ability to provide advantages to family and friends. This tension between civil and labor rights is evident in Republicans' use of anti-civil rights platforms to attract white voters, and in the efforts of Democrats to bridge race and class issues, or civil and labor rights broadly defined. As a result, DiTomaso finds that whites are, at best, uncertain allies in the fight for racial equality. Weaving together research on both race and class, along with the life experiences of DiTomaso's interview subjects, The American Non-Dilemma provides a compelling exploration of how racial inequality is reproduced in today's society, how people come to terms with the issue in their day-to-day experiences, and what these trends may signify in the contemporary political landscape.

Author : David M. Reimers
Publisher : Holt McDougal
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism in the United States written by David M. Reimers and published by Holt McDougal. This book was released on 1972 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: